For her first institutional solo Darja Bajagic turns to the murky
terrain where real and staged violence bleed into each other with an
ease both unsettling and alluring. This has been a key undercurrent to a
practice that spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation.
Following the lure of the fringes, the artist culls her imagery from
fan-gore magazines, true-crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure online
forums, and hidden chat rooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the
Web. She handles these disparate source materials with a dose of humor,
working them into densely layered compositions that are at once
confrontational and poetically fragile. Bajagic explores loaded
questions of embodiment, viewership, and power relations, all the while
interrogating our need to hold images accountable.
The catalogue is published on the occasion of the artist's first
institutional exhibition, "Unlimited Hate," which was shown at
Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien in the summer of 2016.
**Contributors
**Alissa Bennett, Franklin Melendez, Natalia Sielewicz